The Home and Garden Village specialises in providing a location for smaller home and garden stores – and supporting them with a very active event calednsar. We’ll be talking to Heavennly and Honey about their recent re-location, about their plans for the hioliday season … and about how delighted they are to have been nominated for several Avi Choice Awarrds! You can find out more about the Avis, and vote for your favourites here.

Just when you think you’ve heard it all… Hosts Saffia and Elrik explore an amazing new region created to demonstrate the potential and possibilities of sound in Second Life.

Of Sound Mind is an installation – more properly a series of installations – that references primarily sounds. It’s the creation of Lorin Tone and Friends (said friends including Glyph Graves, Madcow Cosmos, emSynth, Mia Anais, Meriadne Merlin, P4ndor4 Quintessa, Marcus Parrott, Judi Newall, Chantal Harvey and Cube Republic). There’s a wealth of different environments and sounds to explore – instruments to interact with … and, actually, some stunning things to see, ranging from a spooky cave to a giant musical castle in the air, from a Hindu temple with a wealth of musical instruments to an amazing total windsculpture by Glyph Graves.

Of Sound Mind – there’s a wealth of sounds here!

Designing Worlds explores as many of these as we can fit into the show, as well as talking to Lorin Tone and some of the creators such as Glyph Graves, emSynth, and Meriadne Merlin and – hopefully – inspiring you to pay a visit yourselves!

The Second Life Christmas Expo opens today – with five regions full of stores, events and various other goodies – and all in support of Relay for Life of Second Life.

Prim Perfect will be there too, and we will have a full programme of talks in our gorgeous pavilion, created for us by Eliza Wierwight of Patron. We’ll be publishing details of the talks shortly, but for now, here is a taste of the pavilion in the form of a jigsaw for you to enjoy!